Drama as an Alternative Activity to Teach English More Effectively

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 139 - 149, 30.12.2020

Muhammed Salih Kapcı

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how the foreign language teaching process can be more effective and applicable by associating drama with The Communicative Approach. Foreign language teaching is a field that has been discussed a lot for many years and on which different studies have been carried out, and this field is still subject to improvements. Although there are many studies carried out for foreign language teaching, some students still cannot gain the ability of using the language that they learn in real-life situations. To obtain this ability is important because using the target language in real life is accepted as one of the most important indicators of being able to speak a language. Through the method of literature review, this study was carried out and it was tried to demonstrate that “The Communicative Approach” is approved as an effective method in foreign language teaching. The Communicative Approach’s main aim is to make the students competent in speaking target language. To prepare the most useful and effective content in teaching process, drama activities meet the requirement of students’ being competent in speaking target language. This study includes the clarification of relation between drama activities and The Communicative Approach, the benefits and four different examples of drama activities. As a contribution to the field, this study tries to demonstrate that being able to communicate in target language is an important issue and with drama activities, the problems confronted in the process of foreign language learning such as motivation, attendance to class, forgetting the new words learned, and practicing can be solved.

Keywords

Foreign language teaching, drama activities, the communicative approach, speaking skill.

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